Delight in Greener Daylight
Marilyne Andersen and swissnex Boston collaborate on a class project on facade redesign - Swiss Interior Minister Didier Burkhalter is to visit the building and part of the exhibition that resulted from the project on October 28-29, 2010 in Cambridge, MA. See swissinfo.ch article for more info.
Students in the Fall 2009 Daylighting class taught at MIT by Marilyne Andersen, worked in interdisciplinary teams to analyze designated portions of the second floor extension to the swissnex Boston building in Cambridge MA. With the aim of developing integrated solutions for façades on every side of the building, they focused on issues of glare, illumination, overheating, the ensuing energy requirements and the visual interest of the spaces.
Marilyne Andersen curated an exhibition (also formatted as a book available for purchase here) to present the creative solutions the students came up with to answer this multi-faceted problem, and illustrate how challenging and inspiring it can be to answer a seemingly simple question, “What is good daylighting?”